xii, 936 pages, [48] pages : 30 cm

Expanded to include the latest discoveries in prehistoric art as well as the most recent developments in non-Western and modern art, this is an up-to-date and wide ranging history of art

Previous edition: 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Before history -- 2. The early civilizations -- 3. Developments across the continents -- 4. The Greeks and their neighbours -- 5. Hellenistic and Roman art -- 6. Buddhism, Hinduism and the arts of south and east Asia -- 7. Early Christian and Byzantine art -- 8. Early Islamic art -- 9. Medieval Christendom -- 10. The fifteenth century in Europe -- 11. The sixteenth century in Europe -- 12. The Americas, Africa and Asia -- 13. The seventeenth century in Europe -- 14. Enlightenment and liberty -- 15. Romanticism to realism -- 16. Eastern traditions -- 17. Impressionism to post-impressionism -- 18. Indigenous arts of Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania -- 19. Art from 1900 to 1919 -- 20. Between the two world wars -- 21. Post-war to post-modern -- 22. Into the third millennium

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